Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Crown Prince Carol of Rumania had just turned 30 when he met her in 1924. According to one version, the meeting took place at a ball in Bucharest's officers' club. According to another, he saw her at the opera, and winked at her. According to a third, she waited for his car to pass on a dark road near Bucharest, her clothes disheveled as though she had been in an accident, and permitted herself to be rescued. At any rate, Carol Hohenzollern fell deeply in love with Elena Lupescu; she became his mistress, and everyone who read...
...raucous, $36,390 Tam O'Shanter tourney, which carries no prestige but is worth $7,000 to the winner, against $600 first-prize money in the British Open. Snead, who tied for 16th at Tam O'Shanter, said that the trip to England to win the British crown last year left him $400 in the hole...
...marbles champion, like the two previous champs, was a boy from Pittsburgh. He was wan, twelve-year-old Benjamin Sklar, son of Russian-born parents. Ben had borrowed the well-worn agate shooter of the Pittsburgh kid who won the crown two years ago. He had also prepared for Wildwood's fast rings by doing most of his marble-shooting on an asphalt tennis court near his home on Winterburn Avenue. His secret: "Just roll it into the ring and put a little spin on it, that...
APPRECIATION: PAINTING, POETRY & PROSE (215 pp.)-Leo Stein-Crown...
...reconcile religious freedom with Establishment (the Church's traditional status as the national church), York suggests four reforms: 1) legislation by which the Crown could allow changes in worship without consulting Parliament; 2) Church courts from which appeal to the civil courts could be made "only when the ecclesiastical courts had failed to observe [their own] rules"; 3) a grant to the Church of the right to be consulted in the appointment of its chief officers (it is ordinarily consulted now as a courtesy and for guidance); 4) legislation allowing Church Convocations to frame and enact new canons (church...